"Come join with your Spokane area neighbors to stand together and call for world leaders to set a sane and science-based climate action policy. Come to the north end of the blue Howard St. Bridge at noon on Saturday, October 24. We will have our picture taken holding a huge “350” banner. More information about climate change, and up-coming local presentations and events, will be available. Your participation is very important!" - Bea Lackoff, community advocate

Continue reading to hear more from Lackoff about this great event.

Our involvement on Saturday is part of something much bigger, the International Day of Climate Action, which is being coordinated by 350.org. Thus the 350 banner we will be displaying. You can visit the Spokane Event site on the 350 Global Action Map.

Our event photo will be shared (on 350.org) with local, national and international political leaders and joined with photos from all around the world to show delegates to the Copenhagen Conference, urging them to be motivated by recent science to give all peoples and plant and animal species the best chance possible to survive the climate changes that have already begun.

More on what 350 means after the jump.

If you’d like to help out with creating the 350 banner, there will be a 350 Banner Making Party TOMORROW from 10 AM – 1 PM. Help is also needed with putting Climate Action Day handbills up in your favorite haunts. For more information on either, call 509-327-8303

The Nobel Prize winning Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change set 450 PPM (parts per million) of CO2 in our atmosphere as a goal for sustaining life more or less as we know it on planet Earth. However, since 2007, monitoring of the Arctic sea ice, ocean acidity, and other evidence indicate that global warming is occurring much more quickly than the early estimates indicated. NASA’s Dr.James Hansen, a prominent atmospheric scientist, is leading the effort to revise the climate action goal to 350 PPM. Currently the atmosphere has 387 PPM CO2. You can imagine, many world leaders will be reluctant to accept this new target of 350, in their understandable efforts to protect their vision of “the economy”, and to resist change. This is why it is up to us to insist on a Global Climate Change Policy that will have the best chance to protect life as we - including peoples of the Arctic, of small ocean islands, of drought-stricken east Africa, etc.- know it.

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